Rich Hardy

Work History

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  Digital Compositor

  Zero VFX

  March 2022 - July 2022

• Digital Compositor

  Vacation

  November 2021 - February 2022

  Holiday
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  Nuke Compositor

  Zero VFX

  October 2021 - October 2021

  Compositing on "American Underdog."
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  Digital Compositor

  Luma Pictures

  May 2020 - November 2020

  Compositing on "The Tomorrow War" and "Those Who Wish Me Dead."

  

  
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  Nuke Compositor

  Zero VFX

  July 2019 - April 2020

  Boston

  Feature film and commercial work, including:
  Creed 2, Hubie Halloween, The Sleepover, Midway, Spenser Confidential, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
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  In-House Compositor

  Marvel Studios

  November 2018 - June 2019

  Burbank, CA

  Part of the In-House VFX team for Spiderman: Far From Home. Post-visualization, cosmetic cleanups, and final comps. I also wrote the tools we used to manage shot assignments, publish shots for dailies, open scripts, etc.

  

• Game Designer

  Low Sodium Games

  June 2018 - June 2019

  Florida

  I helped develop and create the card game "Penguin SLAP!" This includes structuring the game rules and mechanics, marketing, file management, shipping, designing card/box layouts, and designing the website.

• Unavailable

  November 2018 - January 2019
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  nuke compositor

  Zero VFX

  September 2018 - October 2018

  Boston, MA
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  digital compositor

  Zero VFX

  July 2017 - June 2018

  Boston, MA

  Equalizer 2,
  The Spy Who Dumped Me,
  The Week Of,
  Daddy's Home 2
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  VFX Pipeline Supervisor, Digital Effects & Compositing

  Numb Robot Studios

  April 2017 - July 2017

  “The S.P.A.A.C.E. Program” Season 1
  
  I created holograms in Nuke's 3D space for a character to interact with. Some holograms were based off of 3D animated models and some were created via nuke's 3D primitives. Holograms included flickering effects, mist particles, and light beams. I created a "waveform face" for a robotic puppet, generated waveforms based on audio files, and tracked/matchmoved the "waveform face" on to the puppet. I also created a desert matte painting for the "Dune" episode.
  
  I also wrote the code for all the production tools on the show, which included creating a dailies playlist, a delivery playlist, import/export tools, and other various automations.
  
  For several episodes I handled all client relations.
  
  ❖ Effects compositing, effect animation, hologram creation, tracking
  ❖ Project management, pipeline development, client relations
  ❖ Lookdev, matte painting, finaling
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  Compositor

  Numb Robot Studios

  May 2017 - June 2017
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  Compositor

  Zero VFX

  November 2015 - October 2016

  Boston, MA

• Senior Compositor / Pipeline TD

  Wildeye VFX

  October 2015 - January 2016

  Fort Pierce, Florida

  “Hail, Caesar!", "Mozart in the Jungle", "Day of Days", “Waves” 
  
  ❖ Greenscreens, BG replacement, set cleanup, set extension, 3d camera tracking
  ❖ Team management, artist training, pipeline development, tool creation 
  ❖ VR cleanplating

• Pipeline TD

  Native Effects

  January 2015 - November 2015

  I develop the tools that Native uses in nuke. This includes panels for shot management, macros and gizmos, as well as automated read/write tools that strive to save time and eliminate user error.

• Senior Compositor

  Native Effects

  September 2014 - November 2015

  Native Effects is a young and steadily growing studio. We've worked on a broad mixture of projects from feature film to commercial television.
  
  Projects have included The Interview, Unfinished Business, Get Hard, and Ad Inexplorada.
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  Senior Compositor / Pipeline TD

  Scarecrow Visual Effects

  June 2015 - August 2015

  I built and developed the pipeline for the text-based portion of the translation of the film “Unfriended”, a film that takes place in a laptop screen. The film was translated into German, Russian, Castilian Spanish, Latin Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. This project was done in conjunction with Native Effects.
  
  I built and managed all the tools, gizmos, and macros that were used on this show. One specific tool was created to read text from specially formatted spreadsheets. This tool could also trim and modify this text, append text, and split text by line breaks without allowing the artist to accidentally change the translation. Once all the text had been integrated into the shot and the shot was completed, a macro could be used to change the language of the entire script to any of the other 6 languages. The tool could be quickly adapted to function with additional languages per client request. Everything was designed to be as dynamic, functional, clean, and practical as possible.
  
  I also created packages of these tools for outsourcing. For security, these packages all had to phone home to let us know when they were in use and would expire after a certain period of time. These packages were also built to be patchable, as our tools continually were updated as the project advanced. All tools had to function in Windows, Mac, and Linux systems to meet with the needs of our remote artists.
  
  Locally, we also had a macro to localize outsourced scripts from our client’s folder structures to ours.
  
  Aside from developing the pipeline, I also managed artists, performed paint cleanup tasks, and finalized shots.
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  Digital Compositor

  Gener8 Media Corp

  January 2014 - April 2014

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  My final endeavour in stereoscopic, I finalized CG and non-CG shots for 3D conversion in Nuke. While at Gener8 I worked on Maleficent, Godzilla, and Jupiter Ascending.
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  Compositor

  Zero VFX

  September 2013 - November 2013

  Performed paint & cleanup tasks on "American Hustle." Duties included tracking, matchmoving, digital paint, dustbusting, and lens gate cleanup.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  Finaling Artist

  Stereo D

  January 2013 - April 2013

  I worked under tight deadlines with my team to deliver the most detailed composites possible within a very limited timeframe. In my three months at the company I worked on Jurassic Park 3D, G.I. Joe Retaliation, Iron Man 3, Star Trek: Into Darkness, and The Wolverine. I had built several tools and gizmos to help speed up the process.
  
  Duties included 2D and 3D tracking, rig-removal, clean plating, and keying.
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  Digital Artist

  Digital Domain

  November 2010 - September 2012

  Port St. Lucie, Florida

  Jobs included camera tracking, clean plating, chroma keying, grain matching, rotoscoping. I worked on several different teams on Transformers: Dark of the Moon, The Smurfs, Thor, and 47 Ronin.
  
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  Counter Intelligence Agent

  Best Buy

  August 2010 - October 2010

  Troubleshooted problems with Windows and Mac computers, performing diagnostics and repairs as well as managing inventory.

• Assitant Floor Manager

  A Real Pool Store

  October 2007 - October 2010

  Port St. Lucie, Florida

  Before I worked on film, I worked at a pool store that sold swimming pool supplies and billiard tables.